Example sentences of "would have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 2 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 3 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 4 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 6 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 7 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 8 | ‘ I know Ron would have been shouting for him . |
| 9 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 10 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 11 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 12 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
| 13 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 14 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 15 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 16 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |